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Prizes for senior essay writers (slight correction)



Manuscripts and Archives will award two prizes at commencement:

1: To a senior in any department for an outstanding essay based on research done in Manuscripts and Archives

2: To a senior in any department for an outstanding use of primary sources for an essay on Yale

We have asked the nine students who have entered their essays to speak about their research at two forums in the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall.  The first forum (Tuesday, May 3) will begin at 3:30 PM  but the second (Thursday, May 5) will begin at 3:00 PM.  Each will be followed by light refreshments.  Please join us on

May 3 for:
Ari Glogower, "American Studies and the Idea of America at Yale: 1946-1969"
Robert Tice Lalka, "Surviving the Death of God Existentialism, God and Man at Post-WWII Yale"

Melvin Huang, "Holy Fire and Living Water: The Yale College Revival of 1831"
David Tyler Coyle, "Athletics, Scholarship, and the Clean Living Movement at Yale University from 1890-1920: A Balancing Act"
and on May 5 for:
Emily Johnson, "May Day 1970: The Role of the Church in the Civil Rights Movement in New Haven"

Cecilia Cardenas-Navia, "Robert M. Yerkes and the Formation of a Discipline"

Angella Cortez, "The Primacy of Neurophysiology: John F. Fulton and Lobotomy"
Alexandra Reeve, "A Government of Men": Experimental Jurisprudence, Legal Realism and the New Deal"
Sandra Chwialkowska, a feature-length documentary chronicling the lives of 4 freshman suitemates over their 4 years at Yale